You understood my question perfectly and that was the precise reply I was looking for.

The advice that I usually give to people about how to find a good manager is to look for managers who specialize in precisely the type of property that the owner holds.  

Title is based on the sales price for the seller...they should have a standard fee chart - you look up the sales price and that's the amount you pay for title - closing service charge will vary....Sellers fees are different than buyer fees.Seller - Title - Owners policyRecording feesTransfer taxEtc.BuyerTitle - Buyers policyand all kinds of other feesFHA buyer fees - Title and closing should be around the same as any other transaction - it's the FHA fees that are crazy!

Hopefully someone will have some more precise information than I, but I like to toss out ideas; you know, provide some diversity in perspective. 

Yes it is - Redfin pulls listings from MLS and other sources and the filters in redfin are excellent for precise comping (proximity to house, sq footage...etc)

OTOH, I'm not optimistic this will keep those who want to make bucks at public expense from continuing to feed at the same trough.Looking at the long term, inflation adjusted Case Shiller data (sorry, kind of an old chart), prices were roughly flat from the start of the recorded data (1890) until World War 1. 100 is the baseline.

@Stephen Johnson , awesome post Stephen.On the property sold by one of the wholesalers for me, I asked him the same thing: do not mark up the property - precisely for the reason you mentioned.I like your calling the cash buyers in the area approach even though I have not implemented that in my business as much as I should.Lastly, I agree with you: bandit signs work very well.

Tenant retention stats are off the charts!

@Steve Vaughan  you think WAZU  excise tax is bad just wait and see what it is in PA.. off the charts is what it is.. 2 to 4X what we pay in WA excise tax.

Hey guys,I am looking to invest in SoCal, more precisely in Orange County, in the next few months.